Comentario sobre “Tomado de los labios: género y eros en Mesoamérica” de Sylvia Marcos, en voz y letra de María Lugones:
Sylvia Marcos Taken from the lips: Gender and eros in Mesoamerican religions (2006) is a remarkable book philosophically original. As she focuses on Mesoamerican religions and practices of healing, she opens a world of sense underlining practices of daily life that places us at the conceptual heart of Mesoamerican cosmology.
The book is complex, exacting and encompassing, methodologically innovative, beautifully written. It is brilliantly supported by a lifetime of research.
As I attempt to understand decolonial possibilities, Marcos taken from the lips will remain a central reference, one to which I will keep coming back. Here I begin my engagement whit her insights and methodological strategies by unpacking one aspect of what interest me in the work, the relation between cosmology and gender. I mean the engagement to be generative.
